THE FIRST SIX BOOKS OF

THE ELEMENTS OF EUCLID

IN WHICH COLOURED DIAGRAMS AND SYMBOLS
ARE USED INSTEAD OF LETTERS FOR THE
GREATER EASE OF LEARNERS


BY OLIVER BYRNE
surveyor of her majesty's settlements in the falkland islands
and author of numerous mathematical works




LONDON
WILLIAM PICKERING
1847





"Color woodblock printed diagrams throughout by Charles Whittingham; wood-cut initials. Bound in contemporary half sheep, gilt spine, pebbled cloth boards, renewed at extremities."

So reads Catalog Nine, of Martayan Lan, rare book seller of New York, which listed a copy of this for sale for $5800.




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